International Security Forum 2016

The CSS is a partner of the biennial International Security Forum brings together some 350 dignitaries who make and shape international security affairs. For 22 years world diplomats, ministers, government officials, military and private sector personnel have come to ISF. The GCSP hosted the 11th ISF from 13 to 15 June 2016 at the Maison de la paix in Geneva, Switzerland.

The ISF Conferences nurtured the discourse on traditional challenges such as nuclear disarmament and regional conflicts, and emerging issues such as asymmetrical warfare and climate change. The 2016 edition of the International Security Forum was entitled Global Disorder - Security in a World Disrupted.

The 11th ISF was hosted by the external page Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), sponsored and co-organized by the external page Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports and the external page Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs as an official Swiss contribution to the external page Partnership for Peace. The main conference partners include the external page Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, the external page Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, the external page Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the external page Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Please see the ISF website for brief and insightful summaries of all panels, including the three panels chaired by the CSS:
external page 1.1. Challenges to European Security and the Role of OSCE Mediation,
external page 2.3. Community Disaster Resilience: Protecting Development Gains in Fragile Situations, undexternal page 3.5. Technologies as Challenges for Arms Control.

external page Summaries of all panels on the ISF website